OliverKiss

If you find a person who is very rich inside, you will always find that he has suffered much. If a person has not suffered much, you will find him always shallow, superficial. He will laugh, but his laughter won't have the depth, it won't come from the heart. It will be just like a painted thing, on the lips at the most. If you listen to the sound of it, you will hear that it is very superficial. It is not coming from his being, it carries no meaning, no depth. Whenever you see a person who can laugh deeply, remember he has cried deeply... and laughter is enriched by tears. If you are not capable of crying you will not be capable of laughter.This is clarity... to see life as it is and not to ask the impossible. By asking the impossible by wanting only days and not nights, only happiness and not unhappiness, you are creating meaningless misery for yourself. It will be meaningless because you are asking the impossible and it cannot be fulfilled. It is because of your unintelligence that the misery is arising. It is not part of life; it could have been avoided. There was no need for it; it is useless. So there is suffering that is useless... if you create it. There is a suffering which is very meaningful... if life gives it to you.Use the clarity to look into problems, and try not to change things; just try to accept them. Go on creating more and more clarity... and that is the only change that there is, that is the only mutation. Go on moving higher and higher on the wave of clarity and awareness. As you go higher a different world comes to your vision. The world remains the same but your clear eyes now give you a different picture, and by and by everything falls in line. One day one realises that everything is as it should be.That is the perfection of clarity... everything is as it should be, nothing else is needed, everything is perfect. This world is the perfect world. In that moment your acceptance is total, and when acceptance is total all wounds are healed. One attains to the calmness of a Buddha, to the innocence of a Jesus, or to the superb perfect perfection of a Lao Tzu... ordinary and yet extraordinary. One loves the same life and yet it is not the same life at all... it has a different dance.Osho, from the book "Above All Don't Wobble"
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